Asynchronous Programming in C#

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Noor
Parallelism vs Multithreading
Parallel Computing
Multiple calculations are carried out
simultaneously

Multithreaded Computing
Each program has a single thread
A thread can create another thread
Multiple threads can do multiple operations
simultaneously
Parallel Computing is a paradigm and Multithreading is one of its
implementations
Synchronous vs Asynchronous
Synchronous
Program is executed line by line, one line at a time
Each time a function is called, program execution
waits until that function returns before continuing
to the next line of code
Blocking operation
Asynchronous
Program execution doesn’t wait for the function to
finish
Instead it executes the next line of code
Non-blocking operation
Asynchronous Programming
Available in .NET 4.5 (VS 2013)
It doesn’t block the current thread
It doesn’t create a new thread to do its
operation
No relation with
Parallel Computing
Multithreading
Improve responsiveness for Blocking Operation
Thread implementations in C#
 BackgroundWorker (popular in Win Forms and
WPF)
 ThreadPool
 TPL (new technology)

Problem: thread is just sitting and waiting for

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3. int a = 10;
4. Task<int> lengthTask = methodB_Async();
5. int val1 = findTitleLength();
6. int val2 = await lengthTask;
7. return val1 + val2;
8. }
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12. Task<string> getStringTask = client.GetStringAsync("www.bbc.com");
13. DoIndependentWork();
14. string content = await getStringTask;
15. int val = content.Length;
16. return val;
17.}
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20. var s = "www.bbc.com";
21. return s.Length;
22.}
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